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This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

Testimonials to Soviet success until the Soviet Union became profit-run: Computers

"The experimental Soviet BESM-1, produced in 1953, was judged by a Western expert to be 'a respectable computer' for its time, with a capability superior to that of the UNIVAC-1 introduced in 1951. [in the United $tates--mim3] The BESM-2, however, which went into production in 1959, was only a third as fast as the IBM-7094, introduced in 1955, and one-sixteenth as fast as the IBM-7090 of 1959." Anti-communist Christopher Andrew and Soviet defector Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (New York: Basic Books, 1999), p. 187.